Polk Family Trust

Healthy Kids Challenge Receives $50,000 Grant to Help Kids

November 4, 2003

The Polk Family Charitable Fund, Chicago, Illinois has awarded a $50,000 grant to Healthy Kids Challenge. The award is to be used for the continuation and expansion of HKC national efforts to engage young people in improving healthy eating and physical activity habits.

“We hope that this grant will help you reach more people that may benefit from the Healthy Kids Challenge and also help attract additional funders.” stated Howard Polk, Major Grants Committee Chair for the Polk Family Charitable Fund, in the award letter to HKC director, Vickie L. James, RD, LD.

“We are very honored and excited to receive this grant award from the Polk Family Charitable Fund. The competition for grant funds is huge, and there are many good programs out there who are seeking extra grant funds to grow their cause. I think our success in being awarded the grant was in part our ability to show how the HKC model can create healthy change opportunities with a very large volume of kids, families, and programs for a very modest dollar amount.” explained Vickie L. James, creator and director of Healthy Kids Challenge.